Only if you look at it through the lens of our humanity. If you look at it dispassionately, it makes sense as a species. We produce many offspring and they go act, many times for our benefits, even though they may not think of it as such, other times idiotically. Nature is cool with the outcomes, plenty of humans make it to old age, who cares if some die, got to make sure things get done, especially by the young who have the capacity, if not necessarily the common sense or experience, to do whatever it is.

Lotteries give you a hard copy of your numbers and publicly draw the winning numbers. This person’s hypothetical business model implies they don’t actually give the numbers at all to the end client so they can lie to winners and pocket any winnings.

Doesn’t affect lotteries from what I can tell, weirdly. I just googled a half dozen I know off the top of my head and they all said that as long as the ticket is purchased in the state (some required it to be claimed locally too). There doesn’t seem to be any other hard factors, including nationality, country of residence, or anything else that would seem relevant that I could find in a cursory search.

You can go to other states to buy their lotto, it’s not illegal in any way. If you set this up as a business, you probably wouldn’t have that much clientele after a few time of you just saying “no wins, better luck next time!” as a matter of course.

Yeah, based on their logic, we should go back to ox ploughed fields.

If we’re lucky, soon. Cause we already have an armed police force present pretty much everywhere, and they have regularly demonstrated that you can never be sure when interacting with one if you are in danger or not. At least with bots you can actually see what it was thinking when it opens fire on someone, rather than “I smelled pot in the air”, “I thought they were reaching for a gun”, etc.

Depends on the use case, and materials required

A) My statement was a general statement about settlements, not about that specific one.

B) what you posted doesn’t prove anything about the statement being misleading, it just means that the settlement had an expiration date included (which I was unaware of) which means they are still following the letter of the settlement, assuming they didn’t start before that expiration date.

It’s not what I mean, we’re talking about the code and backend stuff, which is not microsoft exclusive anymore. Look it up, the edge browser is a chromium browser since 2018 iirc (19?). What you knew as edge before doesn’t really exist as it was anymore, and they stopped supporting it for the past two years at least.

I know! It’s a rather interesting case.

Settlements are contractual sealed agreements, even if the circumstances around the settlement changes, you have to abide by it until you can go through the system to change it (assuming it’s possible at all).

And the argument against them is weaker now, because they’re using more and more open source, so they have a claim that the bundling benefits more than them, so it’s not monopolizing.

We’re in rather grey waters here, considering the army of lawyers Microsoft can throw at it again.

Not the same, edge was given up on two years ago. They use chromium now, and are running linux at home too, they even have a quiet little linux distro now. Things changing dramatically in there lately.

The early 80’s iirc, Bell systems taken away from AT&T. Took 8 years to go through. The last big company that went through half the motions was microsoft in the 90’s due to their browser comboed into their OS at the time, I believe?

Not necessarily if it’s about antitrust enforcement. These are the laws that literally break up giant corps.

Here, have another opportunity for you to feel smart and “get the last one in”

Either you’re right and brought up swatting when it was irrelevant, or you’re wrong. Take your pick dear

Well…

A) this is an article about hacking, were you brought swatting into it, not the other way around, I have nothing that I have to defend.

B) I’m not stuck doing anything, I could just as easily not give a fuck and say nothing, which is just one of a dozen variations of how I can reach a point of not being stuck defending anything. 🤷‍♂️

At the cost of a high probability of going to jail for a non-guaranteed kill. If you look up swatting cases, most end up without a death and with the people who called it in behind bars. It’s not nearly as reliable as you seem to believe it is because of the big cases that did go wrong all the way through.

I was just making a joke, but realistically, a good hacker should be able to leave evidence to be found by the right people without setting off any alarms in the process. Hell, do enough of them, you probably don’t even have to be great, cause you’ll send the systems they have set up to investigate into overload.

Wtf you talking about? It’s absolutely there, just set it up that they are saying and/or doing antiwar stuff and they’ll fall from a window in no time.

Nah, no worries it’s all good. Fake internet points don’t make or break me, that’s why I don’t delete downvoted posts. Instead I rather use the momentary negative spotlight to highlight to people their own actions.

My overall score on reddit being lower is a total win in my book if a single person sees that post and gains some self awareness of their actions. “why am I downvoting someone because of some food they don’t like?”

Which is probably why I don’t like to eat bacon most of the time and very rarely order food with it (like in strips).

Can’t eat bacon cooked like this, for some reason the texture of baked bacon on a tray feels off to me.

Edit: y’all have some issues if you can’t handle reading someone’s opinion about food. You can keep liking it, stop gate keeping people from not liking it baked, wtf.

Think about it: is your ego so fragile you can’t handle someone not liking food prepared the exact same way as you?

Were cops called? Security? Did the school stop investigations? So many possible places of failure here.

Yeah, I was wondering why there’s so much talk about adding things to steam when you can just alt tab to anything else.

Halloween is time for hanging my hairdresser practice heads from the tree up front! (My spouse hates this so much)